On 02-Oct-2003 Tom wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Hendrik Scholz wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've just installed 5.1-RELEASE (updated to -current) on a
>> Dual Opteron 1.4 with 6GB memory installed (MSI K8D Master-F).
>> Without 'options PAE' the system works fine (beside the 'missing' 2GB).
> ...
> 
>   Does PAE even work on non-Intel CPUs?  I thought it was Intel specific.

It will work if the feature bit is set in the cpuid output.
Note that you can't use the ACPI module with PAE though.

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